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The Price Tag of the Param 8,000

In 1991 India shocked the world and unveiled its first indigenous supercomputer known as param 8,000. It was 28 times more powerful than the computer they'd originally been trying to buy from the United States for that same ten million dollar price tag. But car continued his work developing a series of barham computers after that initial breakthrough. The word barham means supreme in sunscrit.

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